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F. M. LOOKE & J. LAPP.

ELEGTRIG LINE HOOK.

No. 441,849. Patented Dec. 2, 1890.

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I. M. LOOKE & J. LAPP. ELECTRIC LINE HOOK Emi ia Lamas .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRED M. LOOKE, OF VICTOR, AND JOHN LAPP, OF ROCHESTER, ASSIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO THEODORE M. NORTON, OF VICTOR, NEW YORK.

ELECTRIC LINE-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 441,849, dated December 2, 1890.

Application filed September 8, 1890- Serial No. 364,259. (No model.)

T all whom it m y mw The opening through the hook is large Be it known that we, FRED M. LOOKE and enough to permit a knot or splice to be drawn JOHN LAPP, of Victor, in the county of Onthrough it freely when the wire is being tario, and Rochester, Monroe county, in the tightened. When taut, the wire is tied by a o 5 State of NewYork,respectively,have invented tie-wire around the arms on each side, the new and usefulImprovementsinlnsulators for wire lying in the concavity 6 of the arms and Electric VVires', of which the following, taken being slightly bent or crimped over the arch in connection witn the accompanying drawof the arms, which secures it better against ings, is a full, clear, and exact description. slipping. The flattened side of the shank 5 5 [0 Our invention relates to line-hooks used for enables us to pour the melted sulphur around supporting telegraph and other electric wires. the shank and to fill the opening in the insu- Our object is to produce a line-hook which lator clear to the bottom, it being a fact that will permit a knot or splice to pass through if the shank be made full size clear around the hook portion, in which the wire cannot be the sulphur will cool before reaching the bot- 6c. 1 5 raised out of the hook by a direct longituditom, and thus will not fill the opening.

nal strain, and which is provided with arms, We do not limit ourselves to a shank flatto which the wire can be secured by a tie-- tened upon one side, as it is very evidentthat wire. the same results can be obtained by construct- Our invention consists in the several novel ing a groove in one side thereof. 65

features of construction hereinafterdescribed, What we claim as our invention, and desire and which are specifically set forth in the to secure by Letters Patent, isclaims hereto. annexed. It is constructed as 1. A line-hook provided with a shank longifollows, reference being had to the accompatudinally reduced in size on one side and nying drawings, in which threaded around the balance. 7

Figure 1 is a front elevation. Fig. 2 is a 2. Aline-hook consisting of a shauk,ahook side elevation. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical upon its lower end, and arms projecting latersection on line X X, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a longially from the hook. tudinal vertical sect-ion through the arms on 3. Aline-hook consisting of a shank, a hook line Y Y, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a View of the shank upon its lower end, and arms projecting later- 75 o detached, showing a wire secured to the arms ally therefrom and concaved longitudinally.

by means of a tie-wire. Fig. 6 is a view of 4. A line-hook consisting of ashank, ahook the shank inserted in a supporting-arm, a upon its lower end,and arms projecting laterportion of said arm being broken away to ally therefrom and arching upward between show threads. their extremities. 8o

3 5 This line-hook consists of a thread ed shank 5. A line-hook consisting of a shank, a hook 1, reduced in size longitudinally, as at 2, on upon its lower end,and arms projecting laterone vertical face, a hook 3 upon its lower end, ally therefrom and arched upward between the upper end of which is bent to one side, as their extremities and concavedlongitudinally. at 4, and arms 5, projecting laterally from the In witness whereof we have hereunto set 8 5 bottom of the hook. The point of the hook our hands this 21st day of August, 1890.

stands far enough away from the shank to per- 1 mit a wire to pass freely through the space down into the hook when the wire is bent L partly around the shank, and then when the In presence of- 5 wire is drawn in a direct line it cannot be Z. O. OURTIOE,

lifted out vertically without being deflected. H. P. DENISON. 

